03-1916

Diary for Friday, March 31, 1916: Western Front In April German Army ration strength 6,767,144 soldiers and c.8,000 MGs in service. Verdun: French evacuate Malancourt and also lose ground at […]

Diary for Thursday, March 30, 1916: Western Front Verdun: German attacks at Fort Douaumont and Malancourt. France: British GHQ leaves St Omer for Montreuil. Sea War Black Sea: U33 sinks

Diary for Wednesday, March 29, 1916: Home Fronts Russia: Reforming War Minister General Polivanov resigns after Tsarina and Rasputin’s intrigues; General Shuvaev succeeds. Japan: ­War Minister Lieutenant General Oka resigns,

Diary for Tuesday, March 28, 1916: Western Front Flanders: Haig writes ‘all reports agree as to the efficiency of the 3-in Stokes mortar’. Eastern Front Galicia: Russian success north of

Diary for Monday, March 27, 1916: Russian Front Western Russia: Front line totally waterlogged, Russian north wing ceases attacks (West Front losses 70,000 men). Western Front Flanders: British 3rd Division

Diary for Sunday, March 26, 1916: Western Front Flanders: British success at Hohenzollern Redoubt Southern Fronts Carnia: Austrians surprise capture Pal Piccolo, but Italians retake it after four attempts with

Diary for Saturday, March 25, 1916: Air War Western Front: First British aircraft (Bristol Scout) with MG interrupter gear arrives in France. Eastern Front Western Russia: Baluyev’s first vain attack

Diary for Friday, March 24, 1916: Sea War Channel: British Folkestone­-Dieppe ferry Sussex torpedoed by coastal submarine UB29 (Flanders Flotilla) as suspected troopship, 50 dead, including 3 Americans and Spanish

Diary for Thursday, March 23, 1916: Sea War Mediterranean: U35 sinks 13,543t British Transport Minneapolis (12 lives lost) 195 miles east of Malta. First Pola-built U-boat in service; coastal submarine

Diary for Wenesday, March 22, 1916: Sea War First depth charge submarine kill: Q-ship Farnborough (Campbell) sinks U68 off Southwest Ireland. Germans aware of new weapon after vain attacks on

Diary for Tuesday, March 21, 1916: Western Front Verdun: German shell Hill 304. French now have 1,294 guns (570 medium and heavy), the 155mm heavy guns alone fire 278,000 rounds

Diary for Monday, March 20, 1916: Western Front Verdun, West bank: 11th Bavarian Division captures Avocourt Wood and 2,825 French PoWs, with flame­throwers, but Germans are repulsed on Poivre Heights

Diary for Sunday, March 19, 1916: Eastern Front Galicia: Russian success northwest of Uscieczko bridgehead on river Dniester (until March 21). Middle East Egypt: Murray succeeds Maxwell as C-in-C after

Diary for Saturday, March 18, 1916: Eastern Front Western Russia – First Battle of Lake Naroch (until April 14): Record of 1,271 Russian guns fire blind for 8 hours before

Diary for Friday, March 17, 1916: Eastern Front Spring thaw begins unexpect­edly early, but Russian offensive not postponed.